Album sales continue to slide in the post-Christmas sales period, as is the standard. Taylor Swift’s Red loses 72% of sales from previous week and slides to #3 on the SoundScan Top 200 Albums chart behind the “Les Miserables” soundtrack and Mumford & Sons “Babel”
Taylor swift’s “Red” continues to lead the Country Albums rundown with another 69,000 copies being sold, bringing her sales total to nearly 3.2 million. Carrie Underwood’s “Blown Away” slids up from #4-#2 this week barely outselling Florida Georgia Line’s “Here’s To The Good Times” by roughly 1,000 copies. “Blown Away” has moved 1.2 million while “...Good Times” has sold 202,000 copies. Jason Aldean slides from #2-#4 with “Night Train” now over 1.04 million. Luke Bryan “Tailgates & Tanlines” rounds out the Top 5 with nearly 1.8 million copies sold.
Little Big Town “Tornado”, “Nashville” Soundtrack in Top 10.
The soundtrack from ABC TV’s “Nashville” leads the second half of the SoundScan Top 10 Country Music Album charts. Little Big Town’s “Tornado” has sold 624,000 copies since being released while Eric Church’s “Chief” - which will release “Like Jesus Does” as the fifth single to radio soon - sits at #8. The #9 best-selling album this week is Hunter Hayes’ self-titled album with sales over 531,000 copies now. Rounding out the Top 10 is Zac Brown Band’s “Uncaged.”
Chesney’s “Welcome To The Fishbowl” Leads Notable Albums
Kenny Chesney’s “Welcome To The Fishbowl” has now surpassed the 600,000 sales mark while Lady Antebellum’s “Own The Night” is nearing the 1.8 million sold mark. Lee Brice’s “Hard 2 Love” has sold 308,000 copies (and likely will eventually land a Gold certification in 2013) while Justin Moore’s “Outlaws Like Me” is now Gold (as is his self-titled debut for The Valory Music Company). Jamey Johnson’s cricially-acclaimed “Livin’ For A Song” has moved 86,000 copies.
Next week’s a quiet sales week yet again but as always we’ll keep you up to date with this chart report as normal.
Top 10 Country Albums for This Week with Six Notable Albums (SoundScan Top 200 Current Albums Chart Placement)*
*Numbers rounded to nearest thousandth.
LW TW Artist Album Sales TW Sales Total
1 3 Taylor Swift Red 69,000 3,176,000
21 22 Carrie Underwood Blown Away 23,000 1,226,000
27 25 Florida Georgia Line Here's To The Good Times 22,000 202,000
20 26 Jason Aldean Night Train 20,000 1,044,000
30 27 Luke Bryan Tailgates & Tanlines 20,000 1,776,000
28 30 Music of Nashville Original Soundtrack Vol 1 19,000 139,000
33 35 Little Big Town Tornado 19,000 624,000
64 36 Eric Church Chief 18,000 1,326,000
34 41 Hunter Hayes Hunter Hayes 17,000 531,000
32 42 Zac Brown Band Uncaged 14,000 733,000
79 64 Kenny Chesney Welcome To The Fishbowl 9,000 601,000
105 65 Lady Antebellum Own The Night 8,000 1,796,000
104 86 Lee Brice Hard 2 Love 6,000 308,000
153 157 Justin Moore Outlaws Like Me 3,000 513,000
R/E 178 Jamey Johnson Livin' For A Song 2,000 86,000
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